Archive for September 2013

As the only player (so far) to catch a touchdown pass from Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, Wes Welker for will forever be asked: Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, who ya got? Since thinking about how many times he will be asked at that exact question throughout the rest of his life almost makes me... Read more »

When it comes to providing sustenance, music festivals really have all the power to offer whatever they want inside the festival grounds. High profit-margin french bread pizzas, tacos, veggie burritos, smoothies, light beers, $4 bottles of water to which you are surely not getting the caps (this is always mind-blowing), hoppy beers and plastic bottles... Read more »

Before getting hip to soliciting 100 BMG CD’s for a penny, the third album I bought with my own (babysitting) money was Harvest, by Neil Young. I just about broke my seventh-grade Walkman flipping between the anti-war lyrics and upbeat tempo of Are You Ready for The Country?, and the hopeful frustration of the human condition within Heart of... Read more »

A mentally ill, former military man murders a dozen indiscriminately in public *Yawn* This is America, after all. Could you reasonably have expected otherwise? Yesterday I was watching my local CBS 5pm news when I saw the anchor Scott Pelley give a 20-second teaser for what to expect on tonight’s broadcast. Pelley soberly reported the... Read more »

On August, 21st ChicagoNow won the Kup Cup for winning the Chicago Media League 16″ softball league. We will all get the Kup for a few days to do whatever we want with it, and here are the pictures I took after about 30 hours with it.

On August 17, Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9), rolled through Chicago as part of their fourteen-city STUM tour with Umphrey’s McGee (UM) and The Liquid Horns which finalized in Vienna, VA, on 9/1. The two bands rotated throughout their two-week cooperative as opener and closer, and it was no surprise that Umphrey’s headlined here in... Read more »

The title is pretty self-explanatory. All of us come up with ideas for things, “they oughta make”, and this is mine. It’s my first time doing a list like this so some ideas are gonna be more awesome than others, but I’d say they range from “Pretty awesome”, to, “Objectively the best idea possible”.

It was a exactly a week ago that we won the Kup, so I decided to chronicle our playoff run in song like I did when ChicagoNow won the 2012 AAJA Trivia Bowl. I feel like a rapper starting a mixtape with “this aint a diss track”. For the record: this article is just for... Read more »